Tiny tweak to hunts that might improve the patience for pulling...

[Thayos]

Honestly, trolls will troll no matter what. They care more about the trololololol than they do the rewards.

Not all early pulls are the result of trolling, but it's pretty obvious when it is, and it happens quite a bit. The only way to solve this problem is to make GM reports and hope these people are laughing/bragging in chat with their cohorts.

[blowfin]

Not all early pulls are the result of trolling, but it's pretty obvious when it is, and it happens quite a bit. The only way to solve this problem is to make GM reports and hope these people are laughing/bragging in chat with their cohorts.

Um, you're not going to get very far reporting people for "early pulls", an essentially community made violation of the unofficial 69th law of "just being cool to each other, man". There's nothing in the ToS that says you can't engage an unclaimed mob whenever you damn well please, unless I'm outlandishly and hilariously mistaken. Unless they are griefing in chat, then that's a different story, otherwise you're just making assumptions.

Anyway, the A and S ranks on Tonberry are practically unplayable at the moment. So any talk of trolls is pretty much moot. You're lucky to see the model and getting full credit is very very difficult. The simple -obvious- fact is that there are too many people doing this content, and I totally understand how A and S ranks are now being pulled very quickly. The simple solution? Not caring much about hunts like I've always done.

[aivedoir]

Can you obtain loot drops if a mob is purple? I ask because the two times i got my random book my party pulled it. So ive been tempted to pull each time.

[Alukah]

Can you obtain loot drops if a mob is purple? I ask because the two times i got my random book my party pulled it. So ive been tempted to pull each time.

Red/Puple only makes a difference for normal mobs, where the puller gets full exp, these rewards are based on contribution and you don't get more contrib for claiming the elite.

So yeah doesn't matter who pulls, only matters how much contrib you can get before the horde burns it down.